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Thank you We sneak in thesis Sentence versus topic sentence

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Allah shmoop some things are very similar and yet not

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quite the same skateboards and surfboards workstations and playstation network

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programming and calpis If you miss take any of these

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for their counterparts You could wind up skating along in

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title wave Wondering why your controller is broken this games

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Thanks We're spending all evening staring mindlessly into a pasture

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by the same token It's important to understand the difference

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between a thesis is on a topic sentence A thesis

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is usually one or two cents is at the end

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of your introduction that states the main point of the

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entire essay Clearly he's a pretty big deal you know

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tend to run things around here like a huge deal

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When he enters a room we suggest you give up

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your seat take mine The thesis makes a clear arguable

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assertion that will be developed in the following paragraph Wow

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he is so assertive it's sort of like your uncle

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harold who uses every family gathering is an excuse to

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make bold claims in front of an involuntarily rapt audience

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Sask watch superman global warming look just think about it

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However unlike uncle harold your essay is actually going to

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substantiate the claims you make Also it won't end up

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passed out in the tuna casserole after dinner Everything that

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comes after the thesis yeah should support and relate back

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to this main sense If anything doesn't relate to the

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pieces well then it's probably a tangent and can be

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cut Tangents air fine and geometry They're not quite so

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popular in the essay writing world A strong thesis demonstrates

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a unique perspective on the topic at hand It's something

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that can be debated and is hopefully somewhat interesting You

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any people like wearing shoes isn't a great basis Million

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It may be true but the new york post probably

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isn't going to stop the presses for that one And

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now yeah he often gets confused with the topic sentence

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The topic senses sort of many pieces Instead of being

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the central point of an entire essay He's really just

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in charge of previewing the content of his own paragraph

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If the thesis is general The topic sentences are his

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lieutenants reporting for duty sir Topic senses make a point

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in support of the thesis Remember everything has to relate

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back to the big guy and ideally helped convince the

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reader to understand where you're coming from So there you

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go A thesis is the head honchos in charge of

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the whole essay and the topic senses are his minions

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in charge of making sure that the body paragraph runs

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smoothly Pick up the vice paragraph three pastor boys faster

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Don't confuse the two They hate that please he wishes

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you look this good Why i oughta Shmoop i'm not

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